Re: [PATCH] BUG10963: implement a better email verification

["R. W. Rodolico" <rodo@dailydata.net>]

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Sorry to jump in here since I really don't contribute much to this
except testing. But, has anyone simply considered one regex to
validate the e-mail? I remembered reading Jeffrey Friedl's book
"Mastering Regular Expressions" a long, long time ago, and then Jan
Goyvaert/Steve Levithans "Regular Expressions Cookbook" so I went and
looked at Goyvaerts web site,
http://www.regular-expressions.info/email.html.

Goyvaert's "99% matching" e-mail regex is simple:

\b[A-Z0-9._%+-]+@[A-Z0-9.-]+\.[A-Z]{2,}\b

If anyone wants to look at it, it is discussed at
http://www.regular-expressions.info/email.html. He has much more
inclusive regex's that will even match some edge cases the above
simple one won't, but really, if you just warn when an invalid address
is entered (instead of erroring), that might be the simplest solution,
and will really simplify the checking.

Rod

On 11/16/2015 08:12 AM, Michael Tremer wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> okay, this looks better, but I still would like to request a 
> change:
> 
> On Mon, 2015-11-16 at 11:53 +0100, Alexander Marx wrote:
>> We now check all allowed chars in the address before the @ sign.
>> 
>> To check the fqdn of an email the function validfqdn has been 
>> adapted as well. Here a valid domain part is for example: 
>> user(a)ipfire or user(a)localhost.localdomain
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Alexander Marx <alexander.marx(a)ipfire.org> --- 
>> config/cfgroot/general-functions.pl | 30 
>> +++++++++++++++++++-------- --- 1 file changed, 19
>> insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
>> 
>> diff --git a/config/cfgroot/general-functions.pl 
>> b/config/cfgroot/general-functions.pl index 2b5cd19..564a904 
>> 100644 --- a/config/cfgroot/general-functions.pl +++ 
>> b/config/cfgroot/general-functions.pl @@ -653,9 +653,6 @@ sub 
>> validfqdn # Checks a fully qualified domain name against RFC1035
>>  my $fqdn = $_[0]; my @parts = split (/\./, $fqdn);	# Split 
>> hostname at the '.' -	if (scalar(@parts) < 2) {		# At least two 
>> parts should -		return 0;}			# exist in a FQDN -						# (i.e. 
>> hostname.domain) foreach $part (@parts) { # Each part should be 
>> at least one character in length # but no more than 63 characters
>> @@ -747,14 +744,25 @@ sub ipcidr2msk { }
> 
> This function above is called validfqdn and is supposed (according 
> to the comment) to check for a FQDN as defined in RFC1035. You 
> change changes that. Therefore I think this function should be
> left as it is so other things that use this function don't break.
> 
>> sub validemail { -    my $mail = shift; -    return 0 if ( $mail 
>> !~ /^[0-9a-zA-Z\.\-\_]+\@[0-9a-zA-Z\.\-]+$/ ); -    return 0 if
>> ( $mail =~ /^[^0-9a-zA-Z]|[^0-9a-zA-Z]$/); -    return 0 if (
>> $mail !~ /([0-9a-zA-Z]{1})\@./ ); -    return 0 if ( $mail !~ 
>> /.\@([0-9a-zA-Z]{1})/ ); -    return 0 if ( $mail =~ 
>> /.\.\-.|.\-\..|.\.\..|.\-\-./g ); -    return 0 if ( $mail =~ 
>> /.\.\_.|.\-\_.|.\_\..|.\_\-.|.\_\_./g ); -    return 0 if (
>> $mail !~ /\.([a-zA-Z]{2,4})$/ ); +    my $address = shift; +
>> my @parts = split( /\@/, $address ); +    my $count=@parts; + + 
>> #check if we have one part before and after '@' +    return 0 if 
>> ( $count != 2 ); + +    #check if one of the parts starts or
>> ends with a dot +    return 0 if ( substr($parts[0],0,1) eq '.'
>> ); + return 0 if ( substr($parts[0],-1,1) eq '.' ); +    return 0
>> if ( substr($parts[1],0,1) eq '.' ); +    return 0 if ( 
>> substr($parts[1],-1,1) eq '.' ); + +    #check first addresspart 
>> (before '@' sign) +    return 0 if  ( $parts[0] !~ 
>> m/^[a-zA-Z0-9\.!\-\+#]+$/ ); + +    #check second addresspart 
>> (after '@' sign) +    return 0 if  ( !&validfqdn( $parts[1] ) );
> 
> If the FQDN function is not amended, the domain name should just be
> checked for invalid characters.
> 
>> + return 1; }
>> 
> 
> -Michael
> 

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Rod Rodolico
Daily Data, Inc.
POB 140465
Dallas TX 75214-0465
214.827.2170
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